17 projects

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BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

NorCollect - En nasjonal innsamlingsstrategi for fornyelse av Norges naturhistoriske samlinger

Natural history collections – such plants, insects, birds and fossils – are essential sources of knowledge about the living world. They help researchers understand how species live and change over time, and they provide authorities with the information needed to monitor environmental change and m...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Architecture and tectonostratigraphic development of the Late Carboniferous paleokarst systems, Billefjorden Trough, Svalbard

The extensive paleokarst systems within the Billefjorden Trough are preserved as horizontal stratiform breccias and vertical breccia pipes developed along uplifted fault blocks. The carbonate breccias occur in the late syn-rift and early post-rift deposits, particularly within the Minkinfjellet F...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

EAVP 24 – a polar perspective of palaeontology Application for event support

The Natural History Museum, University of Oslo (NHMO) plans to host the annual scientific conference for European Association for Vertebrate Palaeontology 2024 in Longyearbyen, Svalbard in partnership with Evolutionsmuseet, University of Uppsala (EM-UU), The University Centre in Svalbard (UniS) a...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

SVALCLIME - Deep-time Arctic climate archives

Svalbard’s rocks record the Earth’s history over many millions of years and can inform us about how the climate changed in the “deep-time”. These include some of the world’s major mass extinctions, such as the one that occurred around 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian period, the la...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Svalbard

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Present and past climate change impacts on Norwegian fjord ecosystems

The aim of PASTIME is to uncover the impact of present and past environmental changes on marine microbial communities in Norwegian fjords. Climate change and anthropogenic pressures are impacting marine life in fjord ecosystems. Increasing temperatures, decreasing oxygen levels and sea ice loss ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Arctic Ocean Stratigraphic Conference

The Arctic is currently undergoing the most dramatic climatic changes on Earth, with the Arctic Ocean rapidly moving towards a “blue” (summer sea ice free) state. To assess how a “blue” Arctic will respond to and drive an increasingly warmer future, in the absence of observational records, requir...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Paleogene Basin Development on the Vøring and Møre Margins (PALMAR)

The geological development of the mid-Norwegian continental margin offshore Trøndelag and Nordland was strongly affected by massive volcanism about 56 million years ago. At this time, Norway and Greenland separated and the Norwegian-Greenland Sea started to form. The massive volcanism likely trig...

Awarded: NOK 12.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Deposition and Preservation of Carbonates in Tectonically Active Regimes (RiS ID: 11784).

Following the breakup of the Caledonian orogeny, Svalbard experienced extension and strike-slip tectonics forming a complex network of basement highs and sedimentary basins. Within geology it is important to have models of how uplift and subsidence around large-scale lineaments influences deposit...

Awarded: NOK 94,000

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Billefjorden Group Sediments on Bjørnøya and Hornsund, RiS ID 11764

This project is the backbone of my PhD topic for which I investigate the tectonic and climatic forcing on Upper Paleozoic rift basin sequences on Bjørnøya and Hornsund. The main goal for the fieldwork is to visit exposed outcrops, acquire sedimentary descriptions, logs, collect samples and to acq...

Awarded: NOK 87,669

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Svalbox 2.0 – FAIR geoscientific data from Svalbard

The Svalbox 2.0 project strives to make digital models from Svalbard across all scales (from "seismic-scale" mountain-sides to digital drill cores) openly and freely available to the geoscientific community through the FAIR EU-funded repository Zenodo. In addition, the portal places these in a re...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Svalbard

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

EvoCave: Investigating 122 000 years of high-latitude faunal diversity using palaeozoology, archaeology, palaeoecology and ancient DNA

Since the start of the last interglacial-glacial cycle (ca 130 000 years ago), the climate in the northern hemisphere has changed dramatically, from a warm period into a glacial period and then to the climate we know from the past 100s of years. Understanding past changes in biodiversity during s...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Strain Partitioning and Decoupling in Hornsund during the Ellesmerian and Eurekan orogenies

This field excursion aims at studying strain partitioning and strain decoupling processes acting within the Adriabukta Formation in Hornsund during the Ellesmerian and Eurekan orogenies, and at refining the age of the Adriabukta Formation, which thus far was dated through palynological study of t...

Awarded: NOK 76,764

Project Period: 2021-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

AI Augmented Analysis in digital biostratigraphy - palynology

Biostratigraphy is the dating of rocks with the help of fossils from plants and animals. The fossil composition of any given biostratigraphic sample depends on the age, the geographic position and the environmental conditions at the time the sample was formed. In investigations that target the su...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Workshop: Proterozoic and Lower Palaeozoic basement of Svalbard - state of knowledge and new perspectives of investigations

The Proterozoic and Lower Palaeozoic basement of Svalbard represents an old geotectonic complex with elements of several earlier tectonic terranes, orogeneses and other tectonothermal events. Our knowledge of the early Earth's history of the Arctic region depends on the understanding of these. A...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Øglegraverne 2007

We apply for funding of a a large scale excavation at Knerten, south of Diabasodden three weeks in August 2007. The locality was discovered during fieldwork in 2006 and represents one of the most important new sites for marine reptiles worldwide.

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo - Oslove

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

The origin and early evolution of chelicerate arthropods

Arthropods, the most diverse group of Metazoa today (and in geological history), provide critical data for analysing processes and patterns in evolution. Although the overall pattern of arthropod evolution is wellknown, detailed relationships within the m ajor taxa are far from resolved. ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2004

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Inferring evolutionary patterns from the fossil record using Bayesian inversion

The relationship between stratigraphic data and phylogenetic reconstruction in paleontology is controversial. Using phylogenies derived from cladistic analysis of fossil species to estimate the true ranges of taxa, is by many viewed as the best method of assessing the quality of the fossil recor...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke